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The government should be taking all reasonable steps to refocus a more politically sustainable program on bringing in the most qualified migrants.
Younger Australians are less likely to own their home. Is this the country we want for future generations?
Our reporting is “meretricious clickbait” and “inappropriate”, I’m told – but there are good reasons to question the entire elite system...
Whether the exemption regime proves truly effective will depend on whether small businesses can avoid the shell game of paying one tax to avoid double...
The savage repricing of long-term interest rates higher raises the hurdle rate for all investments.
Holding all men to a higher standard feels right. But communal blame awakens demons that were best left asleep.
Forget stock-picking luck and housing headaches – The simplest, most reliable path to long-term wealth is already at your fingertips.
The party’s vote has held up during One Nation’s poll rise. But there is anything but internal peace amid a split with the wider environment movement.
Rather than shoot the media messenger, the legal profession should meaningfully address the obvious flaws in the accreditation system for joining its...
The Secret Harbour result is not a byelection quirk. It reflects a three-party system, where the question that decides most seats is not who finishes...
Readers’ letters on government debt, data centres, electricity infrastructure, The Scots College, and golf.
More data promises sharper predictions and a competitive edge. But the same systems can make discrimination harder to see – and easier to reproduce...
Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their...
For some people, legacy is created through giving during their lifetime, but less often do we consider how we might continue helping our communities...
Current debt levels and rising government bond interest rates are likely to be with us for many more years yet.
Willing trading partners need viable projects to invest in and reliable supplies they can buy. Yet, Australia has too few projects that meet that...
The reasons why affordable housing is prohibitively expensive to build point to the nation’s wider policy problems.
The latest economic national accounts and government borrowing costs hitting a 15-year high will embolden the Reserve Bank to pull the trigger on an...
There is more effort put into press releases trumpeting fines to miscreants than creating credible checks on a profession this central to market...
A history of regulatory interventions has left major South Korean investors burnt. We cannot afford to create roadblocks for a key trading ally...
There’s a good case for Australia extracting benefits from AI frontier companies such as Anthropic, but we should be smart about it.
Despite the obvious managerial problems at Airservices Australia, ultimate responsibility lies with the federal minister in charge, Catherine King.
The industry emerged in the 2010s with rising property prices and cheap money. Now it faces its first test with higher interest rates and a housing...
What happened in Western Europe this summer was more than just rising temperatures. An anticyclone actively drove away wet weather.
The government’s overhaul threatens to trap the workers with massive tax bills on paper gains they can’t actually cash out.
Through collaboration and sensible management, technology can help us secure that holy grail of higher living standards and higher productivity in the...
The president’s transactional approach to US foreign policy marks a return to an alliance based on interests, not values, as Robert Menzies well knew.
More damaging misconduct allegations engulfing the scandal-plagued business mean it’s unlikely to regain its gaming licence in the near future.
We are in a preposterously favourable position on artificial intelligence, but Canberra is choosing to impose an embargo on this growth.
Appeasing the One Nation vote days before a critical WA byelection looked good from Sydney. The vote-whispering fell into the ALP’s long-perfected...
Carroll is trying to make a change of premier look like a change of government. But he was there all along, helping make the mess he now wants to...
Cettire’s latest fall from grace, from a peak market capitalisation of $2 billion, comes as rusted-on investor Regal Partners rushes for the exits.
Labor knew after the SA election in March that One Nation was not just a threat to the Coalition. WA’s Secret Harbour byelection confirms that.
The PM is right that a One Nation government would likely mean Trump-style chaos. But Labor’s seemingly chaotic management of immigration is not...
Events in the Middle East show not only the limits of Donald Trump’s military power, but the potential limits of Washington’s financial power too.
The board should have used the annual remuneration review to take accountability for the bank’s cybersecurity and anti-money laundering failures.
In abandoning forward guidance, it is incumbent upon central banks to redouble their efforts at communication and transparency.
Penny Wong must scrutinise corruption within the Ukrainian government, especially when Australian taxpayer dollars are funding its defence against...
Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh reassured markets he’s ready, willing and able to fight inflation. But in doing so, he may have boxed himself in.
The political success of the ACTU’s “workers’ rights” ambit claims has not translated into gains for employees.
The scale of the problem was encapsulated by another Sydney developer calling it “the biggest housing disaster story Sydney has ever seen”.
The RBA has fallen behind the inflation curve and is running out of room to hide. But another two rate rises risks the biggest house price correction...
It’s a significant competitive move by the two majors, mainly because the UK bank’s prevailing home loan interest rates are below theirs.
Individuals answer for their choices; institutions answer for the standards they set, the behaviour they tolerate and the warning signs they fail to...
The president’s transactional approach may drive down oil prices, but without a strategy for China or regime change in Tehran, it just delays the...
It’s been 25 years since the MV Tampa upended Australian politics. The former PM says he was right then, and he’s right now.
Publicity should be a tool used with careful deliberation that balances the duty to the client, to the court and to the community.
It’s a great shame that one of the country’s more accomplished leaders feels he has to pander to parochialism rather than properly debate a...
Dismissing Australia’s economic slide as a global trend ignores the self-inflicted damage from labor regulation and soaring energy costs.
The failed Sydney property development giant was always a high-risk proposition, and most lenders knew it. So how did so many get it so wrong?
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